"Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself."
Love makes the World less Worldly
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Allow Nature to Teach you Stillness
"Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness."
False Sense of Self
"Religion, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about an ending of violence and hatred through a realization of the fundamental oneness of all life, they brought more violence and hatred, more divisions between people as...
The Secret to Life
"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret to life is to 'die before you die' -- and find that there is no death."
Let Stillness direct your Words and Actions
"Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions."
Pain can only Feed on Pain
"Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible."
Falling in Love
"What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoistic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever."
Joy arises from within You
"Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within."
The Mind Loves Problems
"Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs."
Dogmas
"Dogmas --religious, political, scientific-- arise out of erroneous belief that thought can encapsulate reality or truth. Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security...